Australia Day Contest 2022
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The inaugural Aussie Day Contest has come and gone and now it is time to get those electronic logs in - before the 31st January closing date - so just a few days to get that done.

My log's soapbox comments : Interesting enough but lots of people did not know about it as an inaugural event - or the rules. These things needs lots of PR to make them work. Propagation good at times, poor other times, and not enough stations to work. Storm QRN did not help. VHF operation almost non existent.

There was no real international DX heard so maybe it was the daytime effect, or just general propagation, but whether DX is added to the contest would have been irrelevant this time around.

I worked a few stations on 50.150 (including one ZL1) but none on 144.150 so VHF activity wasn't really there in SE Qld.

There was a bit of early confusion about the AX prefix rules.  Section 8 of the General Rules was interpreted that you could not use the AX prefix in a contest at all...  
"8. 2x1 contest callsigns are prohibited from using the AX prefix in lieu of VK." - and there were quite a lot of 2X1 calls heard/worked - and everyone was abiding by this rule.

I worked the first 9 hours of the 12 hours and then gave up because the voice box was suffering, along with the posterior from sitting for so long....

The same sort of rules appear to be likely for a similar even for Anzac Day, another time we can use the AX prefix, so let's hope for better promulgation beforehand.

Doug, AX4ADC for the day yesterday
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Australia Day Contest 2022 - by VK4ADC - 23-01-2022, 01:09 PM
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RE: Australia Day Contest 2022 - by VK4ADC - 27-01-2022, 07:28 AM
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